The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, Mistress and Minstrel, sentence 99
“How much will you give me if I send you back to your own country?” she asked.
Who acts: you, music · What happens: give, send back, ask · To what, where: much, music, you, own country · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Mistress and Minstrel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, music), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 give | obj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 send | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 send | nsubj |
| 10 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 send | iobj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 send | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 country | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 country | amod |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 send | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | future | you | much | music | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient much=Theme | |||
| 2 | send back a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | music | you | your own country | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | music | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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